FOOD

McDonald's to post calories

McDonald's Corp. will begin posting calorie information on menu boards at its U.S. restaurants next week as it works to stem criticism that its food causes obesity.

The chain also will test healthier items, such as egg-white breakfast sandwiches, 350-calorie sweet chili chicken wraps and more produce side items, to add to its menu in 2013, McDonald's said Wednesday. Calorie counts will be listed on menus inside restaurants and at drive-through windows, the company said.

A Big Mac sandwich at McDonald's has 550 calories, while a 12-ounce vanilla milkshake has 530 calories.

MEDIA

TheStreet.com buys the Deal

TheStreet Inc., owner of the financial website TheStreet.com, bought the Deal LLC, a news service covering mergers and acquisitions, for $5.8 million in cash.

The Deal was founded in 1999 as a print newspaper before shifting its focus online. As part of the purchase, TheStreet will undertake a restructuring that includes laying off some of the Deal's employees, according to a filing Wednesday. It will also discontinue a print magazine, TheStreet Chief Executive Officer Elisabeth DeMarse said.

"The majority of the employees will be coming over," DeMarse said. Most of the staff cuts will happen in the administrative ranks, she said. Some of the Deal's journalists will be kept on and could fill spots currently vacant in TheStreet's newsroom, DeMarse said.

European Aeronautic would control 60 percent of the new entity, with BAE owning the rest, the companies said. The enlarged group would have a unified management and a dual listing, and some of the defense assets would be shielded to maintain access to U.S. markets, they said.

A combined company would have 220,000 employees and sales nudging $100 billion, and unify assets spanning civil jets, Eurofighter warplanes and nuclear submarines. A merger would revive plans for a single European aerospace business that were abandoned more than a decade ago when the formation of the two companies split the industry along civil and defense lines.

PUBLISHING

Ex-Goldman exec's book deal

Months after reports of a deal first emerged, Grand Central Publishing has confirmed that it signed up former Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith for a book coming in October.

Smith made news in March when he wrote an opinion piece that ran in the New York Times and condemned the loss of "moral fiber" at the investment bank. He had been an executive director at Goldman, and his letter marked his last day there after nearly 12 years.

Grand Central said Wednesday that Smith's "Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story" will come out Oct. 22. A Grand Central spokesman declined to comment on reports that Smith's deal was worth $1.5 million. The publisher said the book will be a call for "genuine financial reform."